Saturday, October 27, 2012

Condensing fact from the vapor of nuance: security

So yeah, it's possible to instrument your own virtual memory on a VM running on a shared processor in the cloud in order to detect the differences in instructions run by a SSL key decoder and glean enough (noisy) information from that to reconstruct the private keys used to do the decoding.

That just blows my mind.

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